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SMILING MOTHERS AND THEIR WOOLLY-HEADED BROOD
| Grass girdles constitute the sum of feminine attire throughout most of the islands in the Western Pacific. They evidence some manufacturing skill on the part of the women and some taste in coloration. These women and children live on Rambuzo, second largest of the Admiralty Islands. Amiable as they look, they are people with an unpleasant reputation for cannibalism |
MEN OF A TRIBE OF SINISTER REPUTATION
| Notwithstanding their adorned and peaceful appearance they are natives of Malayta, the island in the Solomons most notorious for the blood-thirstiness of its savages. Two of these men wear the insignia of the higher order, the crescent of pearl-shell. Both men and women have holes bored right through the tips of their noses, in which they insert spikes cut from the shell of clam |